Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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cHAP.1I] THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 911 ing which could not with any fairness be thrown upon the Imperial tax-payer. This agreement was carried into effect by the Queensland Act of 1887 (No. 9), which guaranteed the payment of £15,000 a year towards the cost of administration, and the territory was annexed in 1888! by Dr. (now Sir William) Macgregor, who was appointed to administer the island. The portion annexed represented the whole of the island, deducting the portions obtained by Holland and Germany. The Imperial Government, despite its desire to be relieved of the cost of government, gave no less than £52,000 towards the cost of the administration, and the local revenue, such as it was, for a time returned pro rata to the contributory Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. The Government was a curious one : in form it was a pure Crown Colony Government with a constitution given by letters patent of June 8, 1888, with a Lieutenant-Governor appointed by the Crown on the advice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a nominee Legislative Council, while the Executive Council was composed in the usual manner of a Crown Colony executive. But as the Colonies were paying, the rule was that the Lieutenant-Governor corresponded with the Secretary of State through the Governor of Queensland, who consulted the Government of that Colony as to the policy to be adopted. It was not surprising that with limited means little could be done in the way of developing the country. When federation took place the Commonwealth was expected to take over the territory, and as a preliminary the Governor-General was substituted for the Governor of Queensland as being in control of the Lieutenant-Governor by letters patent of March 18, 1902, which also provided for the revocation of the letters patent of 1888 whenever the Commonwealth should be prepared to take over the territory. Meanwhile the Commonwealth appropriated a sum not exceeding £20,000 a year for the cost of government of the Colony, and in 1905 at last carried the Papua Act, which provides for a continuance of the old form of government substituting * Cf. Parl. Pap., C. 5564.

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